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From the Library from Environmental Building News
April 1, 2006
Lost Mountain:
A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness
“You can think of any mountain in Appalachia as a geological layer cake with seams of coal two to 15 feet thick, separated by much thicker bands of sandstone, slate, and shale,” explains Erik Reece in
Lost Mountain, which describes mountaintop-removal mining and its devastation of the environment and people of eastern Kentucky and the surrounding region. Treating North America’s oldest mountain range as no more sacred or formidable than the illustrative layer cake, mountaintop-removal mining is systematically dismantling the Appalachians to get at their coal.
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